Jennifer Sherer, a labor economist with the Economic Policy Institute, framed the baristas’ struggle as part of a nationwide wave of worker organizing amid …
The Gazette Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
December 8, 2025
Infant care costs are also 11.7% higher than the average rent, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Chicago Tribune
December 8, 2025
Escobedo’s predicament illustrates the challenges that many young Americans, even those with impressive academic records, are having entering the nation’s workforce amid a broad decline in job listings and as they compete with more experienced people.
“They’re sort of missing out on the ability to jump into the labor market,” said Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. “It’s not a new phenomenon, but it is a concerning phenomenon.”
CBS Moneywatch
December 8, 2025
Meanwhile, a cost-of-living crisis festers on Main Street. Significantly, this working majority does not set prices or wages, the drivers of cost-of-living conditions.
It’s not an either or situation. “The roots of today’s affordability crisis actually lie not in recent price spikes,” according to Heidi Shierholz, President at the Economic Policy Institute and former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor, “but in the long-term suppression of workers’ pay.”
Counterpunch
December 8, 2025
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick digs into what everyone is getting wrong about the affordability debate with Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute.
The Rick Smith Show
December 8, 2025
Un reciente informe del Economic Policy Institute (EPI, en inglés) más de 350.000 trabajadores agrícolas…
Reporte Hispano (New Jersey)
December 8, 2025
Expertos de instituciones como el Cato Institute y el Economic Policy Institute coinciden en que estas cuentas podrían convertirse en un producto “de nicho”, más útil para familias con asesores financieros o planes de ahorro complejos. Aun así, todos recomiendan aceptar el depósito inicial del gobierno, porque “algo es mejor que nada”, especialmente cuando no cuesta un solo dólar aportar al balance inicial.
USA Today
December 8, 2025
The federal government sets the Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR) for H-2A workers, a base rate that’s designed to keep H-2A wages from outcompeting US-born workers’ pay. A report from the Economic Policy Institute estimates the new AEWR rules set by the federal government could result in H2A farmworkers’ wages being “cut by a total of $2 billion or more—between 26% to 32% of their wages.”
WMUK (Michigan)
December 8, 2025
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Josh Bivens, Raising taxes on the ultrarich, Economic Policy Institute. Americans accurately believe that many rich households and corporations are not paying their fair share. This perception will change only when just our richest — and the corporations they run — see their taxes increase.
Inequality.org
December 8, 2025